A Life...a sad life.

The story of a man...a poor man who becomes a teacher, then a professor, has a wife, then a daughter, then a career, and writes a book, and deals with life's ridiculous disappointments, and an affair, and then death. It's fairly sublime, well-written, but very little actually happens. The wife is a horrific shrew of a woman...but maybe that was the author's fault, rather than the woman's. I'll come back to this later.